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A bug that taught me more about PyTorch than years of using it

by Elana P. Simon elanapearl.github.io

a loss plateau that looked like my mistake turned out to be a PyTorch bug. tracking it down meant peeling back every layer of abstraction, from optimizer internals to GPU kernels.
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